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Tugboats tow the disabled cruise ship Carnival Splendor into San Diego Bay on Nov. 11. The ship, which lost power four days earlier with nearly 4,500 passengers and crew aboard, was towed from the waters off the coast of Mexico. Denis Poroy/AP

Journalists point their cameras toward the cruise ship Carnival Splendor as it approaches a dock in San Diego, Calif. on Nov. 11. Jae C. Hong/AP

Passengers on board the Carnival Splendor cruise ship wave as the ship nears the dock in San Diego, Calif., on Nov. 11. Jae C. Hong/AP

A Navy Seahawk helicopter from the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier brings supplies to the Carnival Splendor cruise ship during relief operations in waters off Mexico's Baja Peninsula on Nov. 9. The ship, which left from Long Beach, Calif., on Nov. 7, was 200 miles south of San Diego when an engine room fire cut its power early Nov. 8, according to a statement from Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines. The ship began drifting off the coast of northern Baja California. Navy helicopters shuttled in supplies on Nov. 9 to 4,500 passengers and crew members expected to remain stranded on the disabled cruise ship through Wednesday night. Gregory Bull/AP

Thom Burke, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, coordinates with Coast Guard units to assist the Carnival cruise ship Splendor with replenishment of needed food and medical supplies off the coast of San Diego on Nov. 9. After two days adrift, the ship began moving again on Nov. 9 when the first of several Mexican tugboats arrived. Rocking gently with the waves, the ship moved slowly with a Coast Guard boat along one side and the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier on the other. Specialist 2nd Class Jeffrey R. Militzer/US Navy/AP

Tins of Spam are headed toward relief efforts for the cruise ship Carnival Splendor in San Diego on Nov. 9. The Navy is sending 70,000 pounds of food to the disabled ship as it sits southwest of San Diego. Gregory Bull/AP

A Navy Seahawk helicopter brings supplies to the Carnival Splendor cruise ship in waters off the Baja Peninsula of Mexico from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan on Nov. 9. Gregory Bull/AP

Navy personnel load boxes of croissants onto a plane as part of relief efforts for the Carnival Splendor cruise ship in San Diego on Nov. 9. The Navy is sending more than 70,000 pounds of food to the ship. Gregory Bull/AP

A Navy Seahawk helicopter takes off with supplies bound for the Carnival Splendor cruise ship from the USS Ronald Reagan in waters off the Baja Peninsula of Mexico on Nov. 9. Gregory Bull/AP

Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan help crew members of the Carnival cruise ship Splendor unload food and water sent from the carrier on Nov. 9. Specialist 3rd Class Kevin Gray/US Navy/AP

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Carnival Triumph passengers will get a full refund, a free cruise, and now a $500 check. Upon arrival in Mobile, Ala., cruise ship passengers will get the option of boarding buses directly to Galveston, Texas, or Houston, or spending the night in a hotel in New Orleans,

After days stranded in the Gulf of Mexico in conditions some have described as dismal, most passengers aboard the disabled Carnival Triumph can look forward to an hours-long bus ride Thursday after they reach dry land.